Posts Tagged ‘Gothic’
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
CALAMANDER OCCASIONAL TABLE, PAINTED CABINET ON STAND, PAINTED WALNUT HARLEQUIN DAVENPORT, CORNER DISPLAY CABINET, MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY DESK
A BURR WALNUT LOO TABLE, the OVal top
inlaid with stringing on a baluster leaf-carved pillar and four leaf-carved cabriole legs, with a retailer’s label T. H. Filmer & Son, 29\ by 53in; 75 by 136cm, c. 1870.
A MAHOGANY [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
19th Century Gothic Revival Sideboard
The Gothic Revival sideboard had long been a popular decorative and archi-
tectural style in Europe. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill at Twickenham, England (1749-77), was a Gothic folly of monumental scale, and even Robert Adam had worked in the Gothic style.
Unlike the purified geometricity of classical styles from Greece and Rome, European [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
1700`s American Rococo Sideboards
In America, the Rococo sideboard emerged as a distinctly restrained version of the European style : interiors were hardly as fanciful as their European counterparts, and drawing room walls were ornamented with architectural pediments and rectangular panels rather than gilt cartouches, in a persistence of the Palladian style. Japanning was popular, especially [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
XVIII Century English Sideboards Rococo Style
In mid-century and in the late 18th century, the French Rococo sideboards caught on in England, inspired largely by the engravings of H. F. Gravelot and by improved peace-time relations with France. In England the
cave-like rocaille, and the cult of the picturesque that accompanied it, became popular along with ornaments [...]
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